- Look up
acute in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Acute may
refer to:
Acute accent, a
diacritic used in many
modern written languages Acute (phonetic)...
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Acute pancreatitis (AP) is a
sudden inflammation of the pancreas.
Causes include a
gallstone impacted in the
common bile duct or the
pancreatic duct,...
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Acute bronchitis, also
known as a
chest cold, is short-term
bronchitis –
inflammation of the
bronchi (large and medium-sized airways) of the lungs. The...
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Acute radiation syndrome (ARS), also
known as
radiation sickness or
radiation poisoning, is a
collection of
health effects that are
caused by
being exposed...
- available. An
early precursor of the
acute accent was the apex, used in
Latin inscriptions to mark long vowels. The
acute accent was
first used in
French in...
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radiologic criteria.
Sinusitis is
classified into
acute sinusitis and
chronic sinusitis. In
acute sinusitis,
symptoms last for less than 4 w****s. In...
- In medicine,
describing a
disease as
acute denotes that it is of
recent onset; it
occasionally denotes a
short duration. The
quantification of how much...
- In photography,
acutance describes a
subjective perception of
sharpness that is
related to the edge
contrast of an image.
Acutance is
related to the amplitude...
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Acute leukemia or
acute leukaemia is a
family of
serious medical conditions relating to an
original diagnosis of leukemia. In most cases,
these can be...
- atherosclerosis, and osteoarthritis.
Inflammation can be
classified as
acute or chronic.
Acute inflammation is the
initial response of the body to
harmful stimuli...
